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Ecclesiastes 9:11Eccl.9.11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

J'ai encore vu sous le soleil que la course n'est point aux agiles ni la guerre aux vaillants, ni le pain aux sages, ni la richesse aux intelligents, ni la faveur aux savants; car tout dépend pour eux du temps et des circonstances.

KJV

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    ction 1: It would seem that not all things are subject to the Divine government. For it is written ( Eccles. 9:11 ): "I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favor to the skillful,…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 148 (Migne)

    ensis episcopus, et Juvencus poeta, et plurimi doctores claruerunt. [Col. 1317B] 28. (EUSEB. Hist. eccles. IX, 11; HIER. a. 340.) Antonius monachus clarus habetur. 29. Constantia, Constantini soror, uxor Licinii moritur. 30. Constantinus in Arrianum dogma labitur. 31. Con…

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